The Ministry of Agriculture is discussing quotas for imports of rapeseed, potato, and beet seeds from unfriendly countries to Russia

Published Nov 6, 2024

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The Russian Ministry of Agriculture is considering import quotas for foreign-bred seeds from unfriendly countries for 2025, focusing on rapeseed, potatoes, and beets, while domestic production meets the needs for sunflower and corn. Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut noted that although hybrids for corn and sunflower are often imported from countries like Germany, the USA, and France, domestic varieties have performed better under tough conditions, potentially reducing costs. For 2024, the import quota is set at 34 thousand tons with specific allocations, while zero quotas are applied to wheat, meslin, rye, barley (except malting barley), soybeans, and certain corn seeds.

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The Ministry of Agriculture is currently assessing the volume of quotas for imports of foreign-bred seeds from unfriendly countries required for 2025. Preliminary, they will be set for rapeseed, potatoes and beets, while domestic ones are sufficient for sunflower, Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut said in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper. “We are currently calculating the volumes in order to announce them to the customs and tariff regulation commission. According to preliminary estimates, next year we are fully provided with sunflower and corn seeds. There will be quotas for the purchase of rapeseed, potato and beet seeds,” Oksana Lut said. Hybrids, the selection of which is not yet sufficient in Russia, are purchased in Germany, the USA, France, and from friendly jurisdictions — in China. At the same time, the minister recalled that until 2022, seeds of only a part of crops were purchased - for example, for wheat and barley, Russia traditionally has strong domestic ...

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